MacLeod, Ian R. "Snodgrass"
Divergence: 1962 CE
What if: Upset by a studio exec during a 1962 recording session, John Lennon walked out on the Beatles and nobody asked him to come back.
Summary: Thirty years later, chronically unemployed Lennon is living in Birmingham when the Beatles pass through during their "Greatest Hits" tour.
Published: In In Dreams (eds. Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman), Gollancz 1992 (0575052015); The Year's Best Science Fiction, Tenth Annual Collection (ed. Gardner Dozois), St. Martin's 1993 (0312094248BUY, 031209423XBUY), SFBC 1993, v.t. Best New SF 7, Robinson 1993 (1854872346); Best New Horror 4 (eds. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell), Carroll & Graf 1993 (0786700041); The Giant Book of Terror (eds. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell), Magpie 1994 (1854873768), Parragon 1994 (0757501429); and Past Magic, PS Publishing 2006 (190461955X, 1904619568)
— Posted on-line at infinity plus July 2000.
Original in: English.
Translation: French by Jean-Pierre Pugi as "Snodgrass", in Alternative Rock (ed. unknown), Gallimard/Folio 2014 (2070458318).
Translation: Italian by Stefano Viviani as "Snodgrass", in Horror: Il meglio (eds. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell), Nord 1994 (8842908002).
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